INSPIRATIONJust words, or are they words that tickle our imagination and charge our thoughts with possibilities! What are your favorite quotes? Care to share? walarts@gmail.coms they

"Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just work. " Chuck Close

What concerns me when I work is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?Helen Frankenthaler

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."Emile Zola

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams

"Painting must do for the eyes what poetry does for the ears." Antoine Coypel

"Three brushstrokes from nature are worth three day's work in the studio." Claude Monet

"An artist does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas." Jacob Lawrence

"I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed." Norman Rockwell